Author Topic: The new Contender barrels are in! (Read 725 times)

Reed1911 · « **on:** August 22, 2005, 02:25:22 PM »

Letting everyone know that the .22 Reed Express barrels are in for the Contender. We have both Blue and Stainless available, 10" drilled and tapped. The dies are 75.00 a set. S/H will be 10.00.

The following are the stats for the .22 Reed Express from a 10" barrel:

30g - 2782
33g - 2733
35g - 2721
40g - 2596
45g - 2470
50g - 2424
53g - 2362
55g - 2302

rickyp · « **Reply #1 on:** August 22, 2005, 04:50:31 PM »

tell me more about this barrels

Reed1911 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 23, 2005, 01:31:14 AM »

Rickey,

What would you like to know?

Special Ed · « **Reply #3 on:** August 23, 2005, 02:14:21 AM »

Are you having any 14" barrels made or are they a special order?
What is the availability on brass?

Ed

Reed1911 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 23, 2005, 02:22:42 AM »

Ed,
Anything beyond the 10" barrels we had made are special order. The .22 Reed Express is most efficent in a 10-12" barrel, hence the reason we chose the length. The brass is available, however we only made a small run of it and are waiting for the equipment to arrive to begin full runs of the brass and ammunition. If the brass is not annealed, it will show stress marks on the shoulder that reduce the life of the brass. There is not a seperate forming die needed, as the FL die also acts as a forming die.

doc-and · « **Reply #5 on:** August 23, 2005, 04:17:46 AM »

What exactly is the "Reed Express" cartridge. What is the case based on?

docand

Special Ed · « **Reply #6 on:** August 23, 2005, 05:13:47 AM »

Thanks Ron,
I can see one of these in my near future!
Ed

Reed1911 · « **Reply #7 on:** August 23, 2005, 06:03:35 AM »

The .22 Reed Express is a 7.62x25 necked down to .22 with the shoulder blown forward. It's intent was for a small caliber high velocity pistol cartridge for small game/varmint and self defense. As it turns out it's a tad more powerful than the .22 Hornet yet is much eaiser to load.